The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

Across South Africa’s hospitality landscape, chefs, mixologists, and wellness curators are increasingly turning to African superfoods: indigenous botanicals that combine nutritional power, cultural ...

If a person gets sick, healers within the Santería tradition do spiritual cleansing to try to return somebody to health, ...

On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

After two years of research and working with practitioners across multiple lineages, Ritualyn just launched a mobile app that ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

The Conversation via AP — Near the equator, the sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in ...

Cuba is currently experiencing a radical tightening of U.S. sanctions, strangling its economy to pressure for a change in its ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...